{"id":12679,"date":"2020-12-16T07:14:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2020-12-16T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:18:53","slug":"mentioned-but-not-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/16\/mentioned-but-not-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentioned but not Named"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Through the late twentieth century, and even afterwards in certain circles, newspapers often mention women without stating their given name. Mrs. Thomas Smith may be the only way your great-grandmother is referenced in social columns of her local newspaper. Sometimes the use of the husband&#8217;s name changed if the husband died or the couple divorced, but not always. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not just women who may be mentioned in a newspaper account without their name being given. My grandfather is mentioned in a 1950 era newspaper account of a family trip as the &#8220;brother-in-law without his first name being mentioned. Fortunately other family members are mentioned in the write-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of which reminds us from a research standpoint of the importance of searching digital images of newspaper for the names of all family members, not just those in which we think we have the most interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the late twentieth century, and even afterwards in certain circles, newspapers often mention women without stating their given name. Mrs. Thomas Smith may be the only way your great-grandmother is referenced in social columns of her local newspaper. Sometimes the use of the husband&#8217;s name changed if the husband died or the couple divorced, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}